Le statut du sujet dans l'oeuvre de Francis Ponge : entre parti pris et détachement

This study focuses on the status of the enunciation subject in poetical texts. The problem with this status lies in the fact lyrics have long been considered as the expression of a subjectivity, as if in a poem "I" were to be identified with the author's subjectivity. In the first part of the dissertation, we see how the status of subject in poetry can be inferred from Aristote's poetics, and how it is construc ed in romantical and modern theories. The poetical "I" is there characterised as having an unstable status and being tightly related to double reference. In the second part, unstability and double reference are shown to be preconditions for both a poetical knowledge and a process in which subject is growing apart from writing and work from subject. In this double-sided process is encapsulated, in our view, Francis Ponge's poetical enterprise. We analyse in the third part how the author achieves this purpose, which results in a type of poetics which refers to some embodying detachement.